Two security force members were killed and 24 were wounded in a suicide bombing attack overnight by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey's eastern province of Agri, the local governor's office said in a statement on Sunday. The attack was carried out with a tractor loaded...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Typhoid fever cases has increased recently in Southern Damascus region especially with summer season and hot weather. Dr. Abdul Rahman in Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees told Zaman al-Wasl they had hundreds of confirmed Typhoid cases last July. The General...

Thousands of Israelis attended demonstrations across the country on Saturday, two days after an ultra-Orthodox Jew stabbed six people at Jerusalem's gay pride parade, leaving one teenager in critical condition. Large rallies were held in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and other smaller...

An ISIS suicide bomber blew himself up in Nusra Front's headquarters in Harem town near Idlib city, killing a senior commander in al Qaeda-linked group, activists said on Saturday. Abu Musaab Hwaiqa, who fled Syrian east after being controlled by the Ultra-hardline Islamic State, was killed in...

The United States and its allies launched 19 air strikes in Iraq and 11 in Syria on Friday in the coalition campaign against Islamic State militants, the U.S. military said on Saturday. The strikes in Iraq included six near Mosul, four near Ramadi and three near Sinjar,...

A Kurdish militia fighting Islamic State in Syria accused Turkey on Saturday of targeting it at least four times in the past week and called on U.S-led forces to "clarify" their approach toward Ankara in light of this. The accusations highlight the tensions surrounding Turkey's...

Yemeni vice president Khaled Bahah arrived in the southern port city of Aden on Saturday, airport officials said, the most senior official to visit the city since local fighters drove an Iran-backed Houthi group out more than two weeks ago. They said Bahah, who is also the prime...

Syrian army artillery has killed a family of 5 members in the mountainous town of Madhaya near the stricken city of Zabadani on the Lebanese border, activists said on Saturday. Meanwhile, thousands of families fled Zabadani and neighboring villages as fighting between Assad forces backed...

 The Syrian regime army and allied militia NDF have regained control over several northwestern villages from rebels on a plain crucial for defending coastal areas that Damascus holds, Reuters said on Saturday. The military is battling insurgents including al Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra Front...

 A Palestinian teen shot during clashes with the Israeli army in the West Bank died of his wounds early Saturday, Palestinian medical and security sources said. The sources said 14-year-old Laith Khaldi of the Jalazon refugee camp was shot in the chest during clashes with Israeli forces...

A private jet crashed in southern England on Friday, killing four people on board, a spokesman for Britain's Hampshire police service said, and Saudi and British media said the passengers were relatives of deceased al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. A spokeswoman for the British...

NATO will help Iraq reform and strengthen its security forces which are reeling from a near collapse a year ago in the face of an offensive by Islamic State fighters, NATO said on Friday. Iraq asked NATO for help training its security forces in December after Islamic State captured...

The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief will meet with the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on Wednesday in Washington to discuss his agency's monitoring role in Iran following Tehran's deal with world powers on curbing its atomic activity. Some members of the U.S. Congress,...

A new batch of Ahrar al-Sham fighters have been graduated in Eastern Ghouta district near Damascus, according to a video posted online Friday by the moderate Sunni movement. The video showed tens of Ahrar al-Sham fighters in their graduation ceremony in al-Shoumoukh training camps in the...

The number of U.S. troops deployed in battle zones is at its lowest level since before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Still, Congress has authorized a 38 percent increase in the war budget over last year. The contradiction is the legacy of an emergency war fund, started in the...

The American dentist who killed Cecil the lion was a "foreign poacher" who paid for an illegal hunt and he should be extradited to Zimbabwe to face justice, environment minister Oppah Muchinguri said on Friday. In Harare's first official comments since Cecil's killing grabbed...

Seven Libyan soldiers were killed on Friday when Islamic State militants stormed a checkpoint manned by forces loyal to the official government, military officials said. Five soldiers were killed and 15 have been missing since the Islamic State fighters attacked the checkpoint...

Tunisia has extended its state of emergency for two more months, the presidency said in a statement carried on the state news agency on Friday. The statement said the extension was effective from Aug. 3 and that the decision was made after consultations with the prime minister and...

At least two police officers were killed in a terrorist assault on district police headquarters in Turkey's southern Adana province on early Friday. According to local security forces, a group of terrorists from the outlawed PKK attacked Pozanti District Police Department...

A number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon have declared their support for the Turkish proposal to establish a “safe zone” in northern Syria, saying they are willing to return and live in such a safe zone. The Syrian refugees, who have suffered the bitterness of refuge for four years, cling to the...